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Page xi
... child's mind but Daudet seeks to fathom it . A child's homesickness and loneliness and dread of the darkness its fancy peoples with vague shapes , how real they are ! That journey by night from Paris to Étiolles , is it Jack's or his ...
... child's mind but Daudet seeks to fathom it . A child's homesickness and loneliness and dread of the darkness its fancy peoples with vague shapes , how real they are ! That journey by night from Paris to Étiolles , is it Jack's or his ...
Page xx
... child's real name and future are matters of supreme indiffer- ence to her , but that his name is spelt à l'anglaise , with a K , is a matter of real moment ! With all her inanities , her amiable smile , her shallowness , this voluble ...
... child's real name and future are matters of supreme indiffer- ence to her , but that his name is spelt à l'anglaise , with a K , is a matter of real moment ! With all her inanities , her amiable smile , her shallowness , this voluble ...
Page xxv
... child wasted by disease . A sudden touch lays bare the soul too of this woman . On the threshold of death she ... children . " Then she stands in her son's presence , calls him by name . There is an indistinct murmur , a little plaintive ...
... child wasted by disease . A sudden touch lays bare the soul too of this woman . On the threshold of death she ... children . " Then she stands in her son's presence , calls him by name . There is an indistinct murmur , a little plaintive ...
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... CHILD . " WITH a K , Monsieur le Supérieur , with a K. In English the name is written and pronounced Djack . The child's godfather was an Englishman , Lord Peambock , a major - general in the Indian army . You have heard of him perhaps ...
... CHILD . " WITH a K , Monsieur le Supérieur , with a K. In English the name is written and pronounced Djack . The child's godfather was an Englishman , Lord Peambock , a major - general in the Indian army . You have heard of him perhaps ...
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... this pretty woman , reminding one of those tiny Japanese boxes of graduated size , placed one within the other , even to the last and tiniest of them all , which is always empty . As for the child , imagine a lank boy of Jack .
... this pretty woman , reminding one of those tiny Japanese boxes of graduated size , placed one within the other , even to the last and tiniest of them all , which is always empty . As for the child , imagine a lank boy of Jack .
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire Bon ami Boulevard Haussmann carriage Cécile Champs-Élysées Charlotte charming cold Countess creature d'Argenton Dahomey Daudet dear Decostère delightful doctor door dream entered Étiolles eyes face factotum felt forest garden glance Guérigny Gymnase Moronval hand happy head heard Hirsch Jack's Kérika King of Dahomey Labassindre light listened little Jack little King little negro little tropicals looked Madame de Barancy Madame Moronval Mademoiselle Constant Mâdou mamma Monsieur Moronval Monsieur Rivals Moronval-Decostère Moronval's Mother Archambauld Moucié mulatto Nantais never night Paris passed paused poet Pointe-à-Pitre pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed seen sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound spite suddenly talk tears tell terrible things thought tion trees Vaugirard Villeneuve-Saint-Georges voice wait walk watching wife woman words wretched
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...
Page xxiv - Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.
Page 285 - ... workman, is no longer what it used to be ; oh, no ! not at all the same thing, not at all. You must know that the time- of the working-man has now come. The middle classes have had their day, the aristocracy likewise. Although, I must say, the aristocracy- Moreover, is it not more natural at your age, to allow yourself to be guided by those who love you, and who are experienced ? " A sob from the child interrupted her. " Then you too send me away; you too send me away.